NURS 460, Nursing Research
Course designed by Carol E. Smith, RN, PhD
The research course is divided into units or modules.
The units have reading assignments and learning activities. Learning activities vary but may include practice exams, practice research article critiques, study questions, research terminology slides, online group discussion and workgroups. Interaction with the instructor via electronic mail will be reserved for individual student questions about their grade. Other questions about the course or an assignment should be placed (posted) on group discussion because other students will want that information also.
Any activity the student is to do is underlined and often highlighted. Move the mouse cursor over the underlined word and "click" or press on the mouse button. That will take you to the activity that you are assigned to do.
The first units have reading assignments from the course textbook and from research literature. Each unit is covered over a two week time period, and readings for that should be done prior to the learning activities for that unit.
Each module assignment also includes a summary of the purpose of that unit, the chapters to be read, the articles for practice critiquing, required learning activities - including study questions and terminology that you'll want to be able to define.
By doing the readings, discussing study questions, and increasing your research terminology or vocabulary, you will succeed in learning the research process - and more importantly - in applying research findings to your own practice. Nurses want their everyday intervention with patients to be scientifically based on research.
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